Nietzsche
Banned
I'm going to have to slip in here and say: not necessarily. Stalin isn't a gambling warmonger like Hitler was... he is an opportunist. He attacked Finland in 1940 because he recognized that Western Europe was too busy fighting Germany to stop him. He was probably planning to attack Germany by '42/'43 because he recognized that Nazi Germany was a threat to the USSR.
If Europe remains at peace throughout the entirety of Stalin's rule, then the chance of Stalin going on an international adventure in Eastern Europe is rather low*. That isn't to say that a general war between the USSR and the rest of Europe is impossible... as Finland in 1940 and the events of June 1941 show, Stalin can miscalculate rather disastrously. But what Stalin probably won't do is go all Red Alert on the west...
I'm quite sorry about the way I worded that. What I meant is that regardless of who starts it and why, there will be a general war against the Soviet Union. Whos' on whos' side is the only matter of contention.